Recently, many companies are introducing digital receipts rather than paper receipts. In 2020, according to the Value Added Tax Law enforcement ordinance revision, sending digital receipts instead of paper receipts (when the user agrees) became available and this made the use of digital receipts more widespread.

Not only this but the Ministry of Environment, by implementing the Carbon Neutral Action Point system from January 19, is encouraging the use of digital receipts at the individual level. The Carbon Neutral Action Point system is that one can get points according to six environmentally-friendly actions such as getting digital receipts instead of paper receipts or having empty detergent or cosmetic bottles refilled. When the point reaches a certain level, one can exchange that with cash or card points.

Although the digital receipt introduction is in a rush, people get paper receipts without any caution as they cannot directly acknowledge the damage of using paper receipts.

Hence, students of the Department of Applied Art started a project "No paper receipt" that alerts problems derive from paper receipts and promotes issuances of digital receipts. They placed an eco-friendly craft (paper) tape that has a message alerting the problems of paper receipts at the Hanyang University Post Office from the 20th. On the tape, detailed numeric data of the environmental contamination and harm to human bodies are inserted as if they were purchased lists, and this is to increase awareness by bringing the image of pulling a long paper list that is harmful while sealing a post box.

The No paper receipt team (Kim So-eun, Park Son-woo, Lee Da-eun, Jeong Seon-jeong) that conducted this project said, "The thermal paper of paper receipts and tape look similar and they have a common feature that they are disposable, thus we thought this is a good medium to tell people about the danger caused by using paper receipts. We wish after looking at this, our project can contribute to people printing paper receipts less and issuing digital receipts more."

For detailed information, visit their Instagram account, @nopaperreceipt.